Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-19
MEN OF MILLIONS.
,opS MAoKaY MARRIED
30" Wis WIFE IN NEVADA

~. CITY, New, Marcn
nv ran the suddenly enriched ana one
Nscks!' ~ kings of 1876 in Nevs-
o. ~ :. perhaps the best known OF al ,a eTs
o. wbo made millions during the u"t 20 .
lnst t Nevada poured out her treasures ~
TIA. IV mo lncky and persistent IRISH
enli0D Iobn Mackay, the one-time miner
nen Y now mixes with the great
apu IA n two continents. l saw MN d
'"o,t time ago-the same unaSsum.ns
sDOi' "a os of yore-Quiet, gentie-
plHn If plain attire, sporting q
lp' 20 n;cke, watch without chain, anu
r. s absolutely no jewelry' DE was
'.oOmpauied by a well-known oom,
a' 'SSar ane Dick Dey, a sort oil groom oil
Nv chambers or jumping-jack to keep on
.s,sars Mackay spends most OF his
IN this country personally looking
linls b;s banking and telegraph interests,
sits Ho ~. MADAME la Duchesse" as some
Wnlie TaIiferpia danes have ironically
e n,,Td Mrs. Mackay, spends all ner
snsi o IN Europe. The rise OF the do.
llms ~ firm sounds like q miracle, out
s'Ha Mackay,s career has been still more
Estriking. rasidant NJ Nevada
c;,r Col she was early noted for her
r;cb yoIuptuous beauty. she married
1 Un' pbysloian, who, "early in the
P.aso y heosme addicted to the wine cup.
nontnc tn better his fortunes, and posi-
w % form his habits, he migrated to
NINA CITY previous to 1870. Here be
VIZ VIZ fraa NAV to his appetite for whisky,
aend n was hut a short time ere be "passea
o. bis ohins.v His wife was left pennlless.
With trne American ''sand" she started
IN n make a living for herself and
children. She kept clearinghouse,
ond as the Paris Figaro satirically
did few wears ago In notlce or
~ madame. "Tbe miners were united in
,hetr Judgment that it was as good a
81 boarding- house as there was in the dig
81 Vings,D About this time Mackay had got
'1 1is first 500, 900 together, and began cast
ing sbeep's eyes at the fair widow. lie
maid her some attentions, and some one
S 1anghinglv rallied her about IL. and sug-
Il .gested that she would do well 10 marry
I'm. Whereupon there ensued very large
y Rout and a string OF adjectlves not alto
feber complimentary to the swain.
SHE MARRIED MACKAY.
2 do not youch for this. L only repeat
&ha then current Oomstock gossip. At
hi events she did marry Mackay; and
what a change was there, my country
h men! 1t looks not unlike marriage OF
Honyenienoe, as madame moves amid
y Foreign scenes of grandeur, and "haughty
f mans of light, all in her silk attire" while
her lord and master drifts around in $l2
E 8ut Of tweed and wonders what madame
8nds 80 very enhancing about Paris.
. Bic has the finest diamonds in existence,
X hives the grandest fetes, Teolines in pal
3ces and-has pie every day If she
Fants it.
1t must make Flood, another member of
5 De bonanza" firm, laugh sort of
osrss g0ating laugh when he reflects
Plat score OF years ago himself and
fBlly' 0Brien kept the "Auction
Lunch" saloon on Washington street op-
bOslte the post Office in San Francisco,
nd the lunch was brought down regular
at IL O'Clock every morning by Mrs,
lOOdl A round of beet, a few potatoes,
Ome bread, butter and radishes. One!
my! But the wonderful lamp must
pave been lying around on some OF the
back shelves, and certainly "Jim" Flood
nust have rubbed up against 1t by acct
1ent, fer it is related that when the genii
appeared and asked to know their wishes
the partners were 80 overcome with sur.
prise that they treated five people who
were In the saloon. Billy O'Brien finally
nads known bis wishes. "All / want"
Pc said, rs enough to keep full for ten
years" He got his wish. He lasted Just
pen years after he got his pile, and died
Ealter big spree, leaving more than So
EoVGOOOto be divided among his sisters
chIdren.
FLOOD ASKED FOR THE EARTH,
floo1 asked Tor the earth, and has been
n!lns 70 get III ever since. He has got a
mortgage on a big lot of it, tool His
. IUuoe az MEMO Park is unequaled on
s .nls con"nent. Architects ana builders
1eCefe1 carte blanche, and now, 'sMe
'wu riooo," late Of the "Auction
~uhcn, lays on IN state, sips his wines
DF Ice cream at will, throwe his feet unon
.r0 piano, ana, casually wiping his lips
On the lace curtains. Concludes that Iifo
worth living. --'0
senator Fair. the other memher of tho
tfm, is a member of the firm no longer
himself aud Mackay having had a mis-
tInHuefstaHdlng which resulted in him
tfaT retiring. Mackay and Flood own
lne Nevada Bank, Mackay and ! a Rem
~ o,s, VI me New York Herald, own the
,n vmmeIclal cable, and M ackay has a big
tbo . ~ the BankerS and Mercbsnts;
Az nc" acme Coast Lines and the North
naao eiIoan telegraph Company, of MIN
0o0 oco MS a. fortune is estimated at $40.
U UOV Flood is said to be worth 500 e00
wv and FAIR about Sl2, 600. O00. ~ -V'"OV'-
STU zones, another of the old Com
tbS re- r. miners VINO made millions early in
ous 'Vs, tnen lost them all in 1870 bas
inSh come to the front throu0 oh somo
, may strlkes in Alaska mines. He Ia a
Si H1 VI nerve, and every one who knnws
more. All sing ahead once
ANOTHER SORT OF CRGsUs.
senator Hearstis another m,pjnn ,,,,,
nv "O1 "a. but his millions were NOT nal
s 81 'ne Nomstock. In early DAYS he maj
n,e money there, but ne got in with tSo
hy ,ro >. w. Pearson and lost a to n'
frst.ciIada aano operations. Then being a
S ay L.s expert, PROBABLY the best 10
FL. He formed connection with
An ne,a ana Lloyd Tevis, and has haen
,o, potent factor In all their praat D o
shoVt as sa lor the past ten years. He ia v Upv
srSo, oV years OF age, of SLIGHT bn,IS
b me o Iuii gray beard, a merry wi, I'iu,
Ser' vyye, lOnd OF good oompenv-.thas ~
s s- company in front of a wall. stna i ~
An ine anu charmingly illiterate. H. s
rs.S leone o OF 100000 per month. H. n nss
cpltv "4 NIite-the latter with soms di@
wSsy nut II Will be a cold day ;od d
Speech 'no senate to make n
three Snnai. and Nevada have furn,s,,sd
shsron vi Senators in the persons nf
are co., ralr and Hearst. They wSrao vi
w,tbo,,.s plcuous only for their uao az"
bean aS winch none OF them could oSs.n,